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2 unusual facts about Parasitic plant


Castilleja indivisa

Castilleja indivisa, commonly known as Texas paintbrush or entireleaf Indian paintbrush, is a hemiparasitic annual wildflower native to Texas and Oklahoma in the United States.

Sandalwood

Sandalwoods are medium-sized hemiparasitic trees, and part of the same botanical family as European mistletoe.


Arceuthobium divaricatum

It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it lives in woodlands as a parasite on various species of pine, particularly Colorado Pinyon and Single-leaf Pinyon.

Cuscuta europaea

The greater dodder or European dodder, Cuscuta europaea, is a parasitic plant native to Europe, which belongs to the family Convolvulaceae, but was formerly classified in the family Cuscutaceae.

Hemitomes

Little is known about the life cycle of the plant due to its rarity, but it probably obtains its nutrients by parasitizing fungi, so it lacks the green of chlorophyll.


see also

C. europaea

Cuscuta europaea, the greater dodder, a parasitic plant species native to Europe

Hypochrysops

Myrmecodia species have certain superficial resemblances to "mistletoes", but are epiphytic, not markedly parasitic, and are not in any parasitic plant family; they are in fact in the coffee family, Rubiaceae.